Are you looking to upgrade your home theater system for the coming year? Reliable access to high-quality streaming should be a top priority. Enhance your entertainment by combining the extraordinary power of 4K Ultra HD with the endless content options available on the most popular video streaming services. As you read this blog, we explain the four steps to getting instant access to high-quality movies, TV shows, and live events in your Crosslake, MN home.

Restaurants bring in more than $800 billion in profits annually throughout the United States. Like many restauranteurs throughout Woodbury, MN, you’re always looking for ways to stand out in such a competitive industry. In recent years, we’ve seen a surprising technique to speed past the competition: video displays. Kiosks, menu displays, digital signage, and TV content attract customers, get them to stay longer, and ensure they return. Enhancing your professional audiovisuals can make a huge difference in the following ways.

If you walk into the average home, you may see a dimmer in a dining room or family room.  Interestingly enough, you may not see one in a bath or some other place where it would be beneficial as a way to conserve energy or set a mood.  In upper-end homes, you are more likely to see dimmers employed, as lighting is more complicated and there may be different banks of lights in a given area.

You may be wondering why we're talking about dimmers when we often talk about smart home lighting on these pages.  Let's call the simple dimmer the gateway drug to intelligent lighting.  Unlike other gateway drugs, this one has very positive effects and no negatives.

Dimmers help to save energy by enabling you to adjust light levels.  They can help set the right ambiance or act as a nightlight to keep you from stumbling in a dark hallway or room.  They can shine the right amount of light on a feature of a room or artwork. 

When it comes to lighting switches and controls, one company has long led the way.  We partner with Lutron for lighting solutions because they have been doing it for over 50 years, and their products scale from simple dimmers to whole-building solutions for skyscrapers. Let’s take a closer look at how Lutron can make your home lighting smarter in Minneapolis.

Your business has valuable assets. Whether it’s inventory or parts and finished products, intellectual property, machinery and equipment, computers, or anything else, you want to ensure your assets are protected. The loss of any of these things can cause significant disruption, loss of revenue, time, and competitive advantage, so you want to ensure you have adequate safeguards in place to protect your enterprise.

The amount of security you need for your business may vary based on what it is. A retail shop has different needs from a restaurant, and a manufacturing company will have quite different requirements than a services company. But all businesses have common needs, and the extent to which you may need one over another, or the degree to which one is more important, will depend on your concerns and your specific business.

Let’s break down some of the types of protection you might need so you will have a better sense of how to choose the right business security solution for your needs in Woodbury, MN.

Voice-activated devices like Amazon Echoes are joining Edina, MN homes like yours in droves. According to a report by Strategy Analytics, Q4 sales of smart speakers reached 12 million units worldwide. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if many of them were wrapped in holiday paper right now.

Many smart home owners enjoy the novelty of hearing weather updates, playing music, getting recipe assistance and more, but some individuals and households ask Alexa to simplify their lifestyles, too. She isn’t just for fun: Alexa provides many time-savings and stress-relieving benefits. We’ve identified some people who might need her help next year.

Everything we know about business is changing as office structures change, remote work rises and new technology emerges. Not everyone in the office operates the same way, and some employees don’t even work within a central office. As tech integrators, Lelch Audio Video has researched some of the trends behind flexible office spaces and the role that commercial automation plays. Have you thought about how smart business automation could transform your Wayzata, MN company?

There are generally two primary approaches when it comes to your conference room design. Software-based systems like Zoom and Skype for Business can be pulled up by members of the team on any web browser or through a mobile app. Hardware-based systems offer up high-end audio, video, and collaborative technology to make it easier to communicate with clients and employees.

The real secret, though, is that this doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. To optimize your conference room design, you can go with a hybrid that combines the best of both worlds. In this blog, we highlight two partners we work with and showcase some ways to bring them together in your Wayzata, MN office.

With so many smart devices around us, from smart thermostats to lighting, how we interact with them is important.  In fact, human interface design is so important it’s a prime reason why people choose one product over another, especially when it comes to technology.  Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh?  IOS or Android?  These are some systems that have significant differences in how you interact with them, and many people have strong preferences about one or the other.

Control4 is a clear leader in smart home automation.  One significant way it leads is with the number of choices the system provides to control your home’s functions and smart devices.

The best way to see all the interface options for your Eden Prairie home is to visit our showroom.  Lelch AV is a Platinum Control4 dealer in the Twin Cities area, and our showroom is a great way to learn about all the possibilities with smart home automation.

But first, let’s tell you a few ways Control4 enables you do smart home automation your way.